ITunes Partial Playback of Songs after Library Transferred from PC to Mac

I recently attempted to transfer the individual iTunes folders of music from my PC running Windows XP using a flash drive to my new Macbook Pro. I imported the songs via iTunes directly from the flash drive into iTunes. After doing this the songs will only play partially before changing to the next song. The entire track is there and will play if I manually click the playback scroll beyond the stopping point. Is there anyway to fix this bug in iTunes?

See Make a split library portable. A portable library can be stored entirely on an external drive and moved between Mac and Windows computers. iTunes takes a little longer to open the library the first time after each switch. If your drive is currently formatted to NTFS then you will need an additional driver to enable OS X to write to the drive, or simply clone the library to an HFS+ drive.
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